Family policies are a comparatively late addition to social policies and they have been developed mainly within Europe. Public, state intervention into family matters, through different kind of legal norms concerning marriage, filiation, inheritance, schooling obligations, working age and so forth however, has a much longer and broader history. The goals, as well as the instruments, of family p...

There is a need for decision-makers to be provided with both an overview of existing knowledge, and information which is as complete and up-to-date as possible on changes in certain features of the biosphere. Another objective is to bring together all the many attempts which have been made over the years at various levels (international, Community, national and regional) to obtain more informat...

The conservation of crop genetic resources requires understanding the different variables-cultural, social, and economic-that impinge on crop diversity. In small-scale farming systems, seed exchanges represent a key mechanism in the dynamics of crop genetic diversity, and analyzing the rules that structure social networks of seed exchange between farmer communities can help decipher patterns of...

Si les matériaux possèdent des caractéristiques objectives, ils détiennent aussi toute une part de mythologie au sens que Roland Barthes ou Roger Caillois, pour la pierre, pouvaient donner à ce terme. Reprenant cette filiation, l’article rappelle un certain nombre mythes rêveries autour pierres, et souligne combien choix qui sont faits en matière construction, sculpture Land Art souvent tributa...